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by hackerbeat 635 days ago
Nonsense. It goes much deeper than that. WordPress is no little app some dude maintains in his free time. It's a massive powerhouse that powers 40%+ of the whole web. WP Engine can't just leech on it while adding zero value.
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dangrossman 635 days ago
Why can 40%+ of the web leech on it while adding zero value except the <1% hosted by WPE?
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hackerbeat 635 days ago
Cause they're not raking in hundreds of millions of dollars every year, as WPE does, without giving back or adding any value whatsoever.

Here are some big and popular hosts that actually do give back. https://wordpress.org/hosting/

In the future, please inform yourself more before siding with the bad guys.

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dangrossman 635 days ago
There are approximately 330,000 web hosting companies not listed there, including a very long list that are larger than WPE, generate an order of magnitude more revenue than WPE, and host more WP installs than WPE.

WP Engine has contributed full-time developer hours to the core WordPress code base for over 10 years, is a current Five for the Future contributing member, sponsors WordCamp events globally, produces the DE{CODE} series of conferences for WordPress developers, and maintains some of WordPress's most essential and popular plugins.

To say "without giving back or adding any value whatsoever" is libel. It's defamatory and deeply untrue. You're committing one of several crimes Matt committed to start all this drama. Maybe you'll get to meet the "good guys" in person when you respond to the lawsuits in the same court system.

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